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Health Ministry unveils ambitious targets to bring HIV cases down

August 13, 2019 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

Expanding access to treatment and targeting vulnerable populations will be a core part of a strategy to bring down the number of HIV cases in India, according to recent reports.  The Union Health Ministry intends to reduce the number of HIV cases in the country by 20,000 on a yearly basis in 2019 and 2020, […]

Filed Under: Access to Healthcare, Featured Stories, Infectious diseases, Medicine and Research, Social issues Tagged With: access to healthcare, access to medicines, AIDS, government policy, HIV, HIV/AIDS

India: The AIDS pharmacy of the world

June 6, 2019 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

India is bolstering its reputation as the pharmacy of the world when it comes to the treatment of one condition in particular: AIDS and the virus which causes it, HIV. In 2017, there were approximately 36.9 million individuals living with HIV/AIDS, with 940,000 people succumbing to the complications of the disease. In that year, 1.8 […]

Filed Under: Access to Healthcare, Featured Stories, Government policy, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, National, News, Social issues Tagged With: access to medicines, AIDS, HIV, HIV/AIDS

World AIDS Day 2018: The Indian perspective

December 1, 2018 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

2.1 million Indians live with HIV – the third largest HIV epidemic in the world.  Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda intends to make HIV/AIDS a thing of the past in India by 2030. On World AIDS Day 2018, we investigate how likely this is to come to pass. Recent years have seen India make […]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Government policy, Infectious diseases, National, Opinion, Social issues Tagged With: access to healthcare, access to medicines, AIDS, HIV, HIV/AIDS

In boon for HIV patients, historic law comes into force

September 12, 2018 By Nicholas Parry Leave a Comment

The Health Ministry has started implementing of a historic HIV/AIDS bill, which passed in the Rajya Sabha in March. The bill offers comprehensive state provided care to HIV patients. In addition, social protections are to be put in place that would seek to prevent discrimination against HIV positive individuals. India has a relatively low HIV […]

Filed Under: Access to Healthcare, Featured Story, Government policy, Infectious diseases, National, Social issues Tagged With: access to healthcare, access to medicines, AIDS, HIV, HIV/AIDS, Indian government, law

One in one hundred HIV positive in Manipur

July 26, 2018 By Nicholas Parry Leave a Comment

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In the state of Manipur one in every one hundred individuals is HIV positive according to a recent study on HIV prevalence in India. The study revealed that Manipur had the highest percentage of HIV positive individuals of all Indian states, with 1.06 percent of the population affected. This figure was followed by Mizoram, at […]

Filed Under: Access to Healthcare, Featured, Government policy, Infectious diseases, Medicine and Research, National, News, Social issues Tagged With: AIDS, HIV, Manipur

“As far as possible” the aftermath of the HIV/AIDS bill

September 3, 2017 By Nicholas Parry Leave a Comment

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States have run out of HIV medications with no sign of replenishment, despite the recent HIV/AIDS bill. In May, an HIV/AIDS bill was launched by the Health Ministry that was hailed as a historic accomplishment in the fight for human rights for those infected with the condition. The bill was however called out by many […]

Filed Under: Access to Healthcare, Featured, Government policy, Medicine and Research, National, News, Social issues Tagged With: AIDS, HIV

Bad blood: India’s trouble with transfusions and HIV

December 16, 2016 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

Damning figures publicised at the beginning of December have laid bare the extent of India’s problem with HIV transmission through faulty blood transfusions – believed to have caused 14,474 cases over the last seven years. The information was obtained by IndiaSpend through a series of right to information (RTI) requests. It was published as their […]

Filed Under: Featured, Government policy, Medicine and Research, National Tagged With: AIDS, blood transfusions, health, HIV

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